Crossing The Road
Sudhir Thapliyal
Leela was scorned and thrown away like a fly from a glass of milk by a villainous, greedy and a selfish Menon. She vents her fury on him by seeking the ultimate revenge a woman can come up with. A story told by a friend who is first just a witness to the bizzare goings on between Leela and her divorced husband but later becomes a part of the dirty quagmire. Both of them take recourse to tantriks, plot murders that don t work and in the end an exasperated and frustrated Leela takes an unheard of course. The friend initially looks on in an indifferent and uninterested way at a marriage gone wrong. But he too is drawn into the drama as both sides dangle the ultimate bribe money. His scruples are thrown to the winds as the lure of filthy lucre traps him in the web wovenby a scheming Leela
An IIM graduate from Calcutta, Sudhir Thapliyal joined the Statesman, Calcutta, in 1967 and is today a freelance journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker. He has worked as a radio and TV commentator in India and abroad. He was nominated for the Rhodes Scholarship in 1967, and is also a 1972 Fellow of the World Press Institute, St Paul, Minn (USA). Author of Hello! Mister Tee and War at Lambidhar, many of his short stories and features have been published in leading Indian magazines and Sunday supplements, including the Statesman Literary Supplement and the Financial Times, London. He has written the screenplay of a telefilm based on Ruskin Bond s novel Room on the Roof. Currently he is working on a screenplay for a Bollywood producer. An avid trekker, mountaineer and naturalist he has been nearly everywhere in the Indian Himalayas. He has travelled widely in the United States, Europe and India. He was a member of Edmund Hillary s Ocean to Sky Expedition in 1977 and the Saser Kangri III expedition in the Karakorams in 1986.
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